It must have gotten tangled in there some way or another, because it took you a minute to get it out.
Attempting to represent the characters' confusion, the writing often gets tangled in confusion all its own.
But it is precisely because no one at the top has provided moral leadership on this issue that it has gotten so tangled.
Kivrin tried to put up a hand to fend him off, but her hands had got tangled somehow in the cloak.
This is one of the many things we would have told you, if circumstances had not gotten so tangled.
The line behind him had gotten tangled.
Whenever the thread of his consciousness had unwound too far and got tangled, a little solitude could wind it quickly back.
She might have kicked him if her feet hadn't gotten tangled, but her heart wouldn't have been in it.
When the platform went over, he got tangled and went over with it.
No matter how carefully they stowed the ropes the night before, in the morning they always seemed to have gotten tangled.